Table 1.
Demographic and clinical profile of 263 patients with Multiple Sclerosis with or without optic neuritis
| Variables | Optic neuritis | Odds Ratio |
95%
Confidence interval |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
With
(n=160) |
Without
(n=103) |
Lower | Upper | |||
|
Gender
Male Female |
39 (24.4%) 121 (75.6%) |
36 (35%) 67 (65%) |
1.66 | 0.96 | 2.86 | 0.06 |
|
Marital status
*
Single married |
47 (29.7%) 111 (70.3%) |
22 (21.4%) 81 (78.6%) |
0.64 | 0.35 | 1.14 | 0.13 |
|
Place of live
Urban Rural |
93 (58.1%) 67 (41.9%) |
52 (50.5%) 51 (49.5%) |
0.73 | 0.44 | 1.20 | 0.22 |
|
Education
Lower diploma Higher diploma |
98 (61.3% 62 (38.8%) |
66 (64.1%) 37 (35.9%) |
1.12 | 0.67 | 1.88 | 0.66 |
|
Age at onset
≤30 >30 |
130 (81.3%) 30 (18.8%) |
63 (61.2%) 40 (38.8%) |
0.36 | 0.20 | 0.63 | <0.001 |
|
Initiation pattern
Monosymptomatic Polysymptomatic |
101 (63.1%) 59 (36.9%) |
60 (58.3%) 43 (41.7%) |
0.815 | 0.491 | 1.35 | 0.42 |
*
The data of two cases was missing.